Wednesday, October 06, 2010

Nora Ephron to head HuffPo's new divorce section

I don't know if I'm more annoyed that someone who made her money raising unrealistic expectations about romance is now profiting off the inevitable result of unrealistic romantics getting married or that divorce is STILL this woman's schtick.

Seems sort of self-contradictory: her shtick is divorce (as with her book and movie about divorcing Carl Bernstein), but she raises unrealistic expectations about romance? I would have thought that being super-public about what it's like to have your husband commit adultery with one of your friends, while you're pregnant, would be a dash of cold water in the face regarding romance. At least, "Heartburn" didn't leave me feeling very positive about love and marriage; it contributed a lot to my belief at the time that it was better not to pursue relationships with guys who could be plausibly played in a movie by the young Robert Redford.